Verplrke 0 Report post Posted April 16, 2009 I'm trying to install Mandriva Powerpack 2009 on my Acer Aspire 5920G. After choosing to install Mandriva from the Boot menu. I get a black screen saying "probing edd" and then quickly going completely black. There is some disc activity afterwards for a few seconds but then it completely freezes. When I choose text-install instead of graphical install the last lines are "PME# is disabled" and then the computer freezes. I've tried some stuff like booting with edd=skipmbr and/or edd=off but this doesn't solve the problem. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Verplrke 0 Report post Posted April 16, 2009 I've managed to install Mandriva by changing the SATA-mode from ahci to IDE in the Bios. That made the install possible but I haven't been able to boot Mandriva as I get a similar blank screen after the bootloader now. Plus switching to IDE-mode gives BOSD's in Vista, so I had to switch back to ahci. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theYinYeti 1 Report post Posted April 17, 2009 (edited) Did you try any of the “standard†workarounds at install-time, such as noapic and/or nolapic ? Someone here seems to have a similar problem, and says using the “VESA option†solved the issue for him, although he has to wait at each boot… This seems to be a rare and troublesome problem! Maybe you should try and file a bug at qa.mandriva.com (after having checked that the problem is still in Mdv Cooker/2009.1) with as much detail as you can come up with. Yves. Edited April 17, 2009 by theYinYeti Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Verplrke 0 Report post Posted April 18, 2009 I've got it. I choose the install without lapic and I was able to boot. So I swtiched lapic of in the bootloader and Mandriva booted succesfully. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
